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Synonyms and Antonyms of fakes
- experts declared that one of the museum's prized paintings was actually a fake
- a hidden-camera investigation revealed that the so-called psychic was a fake
charlatans, fakers, fakirs, frauds, hoaxers, humbugs, impostors (or imposters), mountebanks, phonies (also phoneys), pretenders, quacks, quacksalvers, ringers, shams
copycats, imitators, impersonators, mimics
actors, bluffers, counterfeiters, deceivers, dissemblers, duper, feigners, misleaders, operators, tricksters
cozeners, defrauders, dodgers, fraudsters [chiefly British], scammers, scamsters, sharpers, sharpies, skinners, swindlers
aces, adepts, authorities, crackerjacks (also crackajacks), experts, maestros (or maestri), masters, past masters, professionals, virtuosos (or virtuosi), whizzes, wizards
Synonyms and Antonyms of fakes
- pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot
- while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes
- if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech
- the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right
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